Taiwan's opposition-controlled legislature keeps extending its session without actually doing the work, leaving more than 180 budget and regulatory items to blow past their legal deadlines — bad for government oversight and for anyone waiting on these rules.

• Since February last year, the KMT and TPP majority has kept the session running on repeated extensions but has barely processed the cases in front of it.
• More than 180 items are stuck, including budgets and final accounts for the foreign ministry, defense ministry, national security bureau and veterans affairs, some dating back three budget years.
• Budget books for government-linked foundations, along with final accounts, have also sat unreviewed past the limits set by law.
• Everyday rules are caught in the jam too: employment fund management, naturalized citizens' military service, and food recall and disposal rules all missed their deadlines.
• Some of the delayed items were ones the opposition caucuses themselves demanded be sent to committee, then never scheduled — one court recording broadcast rule missed its deadline twice, even after an extension was granted.

Outlook: With committees still not scheduling these cases, the backlog is likely to keep growing and more items will expire before anyone reviews them.